Analysis News Last week, Daniel Ek bought $50m in Spotify stock. Today, Spotify’s share price sunk to an all-time low.Ek tweeted on Friday that he believed Spotify's "best days are ahead"
Analysis News Pink Floyd considering sale of recorded music catalog for hundreds of millions of dollars, say Bloomberg sourcesWarner bought control of Pink Floyd with Parlophone. But not, it seems, for the long term.
Analysis Interviews The Fed just raised interest rates. So did the Bank Of England. A leading music asset valuer explains why it isn’t worrying.Citrin Cooperman's Nari Matsuura explains, in detail, why her firm's Discount Rate for music assets isn't changing
Analysis Blog ‘This agreement guarantees a raise for CDs, vinyl and downloads, but we know that songwriters need much more to succeed – they need fairness.’This op/ed comes from David Israelite, the President & CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA)
Analysis News Confirmed: Sony Music paid Universal €102 million for stake in Todd Moscowitz’s Alamo RecordsA new nugget of information emerges - and MBW does the math
Analysis News From The Weeknd’s Universal deal to Spotify’s Q1 results: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
Analysis News Spotify’s share price crash is a shocker for Daniel Ek. It won’t have best pleased music’s biggest companies.MBW crunches the numbers on Universal and Sony's ownership stakes in Daniel Ek's green machine
Analysis Blog Could the Music Catalog Rights Boom Generate Windfalls for Non-Superstars?YM&U Executive Manager, Alex Frankel, on tech that could expand the catalog rush to smaller artists and songwriters
Analysis News No Netflix problems here: Spotify added 2m net subscribers in Q1 – despite cutting off 1.5 million subs in RussiaSpotiify beats guidance on various key metric for its business – when you factor in Russia – including users and subscribers
Analysis Spotify faces its most crucial earnings call yet. Here are the 3 difficult questions MBW would be asking.After Netflix's shocker of a Q1, all eyes are on Spotify's equivalent fiscal announcement. Here's what MBW would ask Daniel Ek.
Analysis Nearly 80% of artists on Spotify have fewer than 50 monthly listenersThere is an ocean of music on Spotify that is a very long way from being popular
Analysis Blog Why Ed Sheeran’s copyright victory matters – by the lawyers that represented him.The following op/ed comes from Simon Goodbody and Mark Krais, Partner and co-founding Partner at Bray & Krais Solicitors
Analysis News With Netflix losing subscribers, is music’s own streaming party over?MBW founder Tim Ingham analyzes Netflix's surprise Q1 2022 downturn, and the impact it might have on Spotify
Analysis Blog Myth-understandings: what price truth in musical memoirs?Eamonn Forde explores mythology in music biopics and documentaries
Analysis News Latin music is on course to generate over $1 billion in the US in 2022MBW calculations suggest that Latin music claimed a near-7% market share of US streaming revenues last year